Do you disable notifications for all your apps?

Moops, 1 year ago

Yes, and UberEats in particular is big mad about it. It brings me joy to tap “Deny” everytime it asks me to turn them back on.

The only notifications I get are texts/calls, and a couple smart-home things that are set to warn me about temps or when a light-timer turns on or off. Not even social media, especially not social media, get to interrupt my day.

Knusper, 1 year ago

I generally only use non-commercial apps, so never really had any problem…

amio, 1 year ago

No, but I tend to disable a bunch of the categories. If it makes it hard to avoid BS/irrelevant/uninteresting/"fake" notifications, notification perms go away, or the whole app does, usually with a free one-star rating. (As if that realistically matters)

spittingimage, 1 year ago

I get notifications for text messages, nothing else. The phone is not the boss of me. I am the boss of the phone.

PapaStevesy, 1 year ago

Not the apps I want notifications for.

bighatchester, 1 year ago

I usually don’t allow notifications for most apps other than messaging and some YouTube . Anything else like Lemmy I just check when I open the app .

Usernameblankface, 1 year ago

I only allow messaging services that my friends and family use, calendar, and alarms.

I check everything else often enough on my own without any notifications.

altima_neo, 1 year ago

Only notifications I want are calls/texts and my security cameras.

I don’t care to know if I got a reply on YouTube, or Lemmy, or a new email. I can always check that stuff at my leisure.

CaptObvious, 1 year ago

As few as possible, meaning immediate communication apps and a couple that monitor devices. A few more can notify if they’re running.

TheInsane42, 1 year ago

I have notifications active, but notification sound default to none. For apps I want a sound reminder (calendar and pm in chat apps), I set another sound.

LegionEris, 1 year ago

Nope. I got the ADHD. I need the robot to remind me about things. It’d make some of you sick how many notifications I get. I have notifications turned on for every channel in two Discord servers. Traffic on them is usually slow to modest, but still. Lemmy is the only platform I use daily that isn’t allowed any notifications because I’ve been using forums for about twenty years and don’t often forget to check in here.

jjjalljs, 1 year ago

Most of them.

I get notified for

• Calls
• SMS
• WhatsApp (yuck, but a few friends use it)
• Signal
• Tinder
• DuoLingo

Tinder seems to be “buggy” and won’t accept that I want to be notified for new messages and matches, but not for anything else.

Nothing else is supposed to send me a notification. I don’t really use social media (other than this, if it counts), so that helps.

TheFeatureCreature, 1 year ago

Everything disabled except calls, iCloud stuff (iMessage, health, calendar, etc), emails, Snapchat and local weather alerts.

Dedh, 1 year ago

I remove permissions for notifications from all apps that I am able to except for sms/text & phone calls.

m105, 1 year ago

I also have all notifications disabled, except the ones I really need (texts, calls, calendar, email and others like this). I don’t like that every time I look at my phone to have tens or hundreds of notifications that I am not interested in, I want to have only what I need to see.